Presents George Eliot's shorter poetry. This volume includes an introduction, which discusses Eliot's interest in poetry verse and its relation to her prose and prose fiction; her recurring themes and motifs; the poetry's critical reception and its value to modern readers.
Part 1 Early Experiment in Verse; Chapter 1 On Being Called a Saint; Chapter 2 Knowing That Shortly I Must Put off This Tabernacle; Chapter 3 Sonnet; Chapter 4 Question and Answer; Chapter 5 Mid the Rich Store of Nature’s Gifts to Man; Chapter 6 As Tu Vu La Lune Se Lever; Part 2 The Legend of Jubal (1878) Poems; Chapter 7 The Legend of Jubal; Chapter 8 Agatha; Chapter 9 Armgart; Chapter 10 How Lisa Loved The King; Chapter 11 A Minor Prophet; Chapter 1 Brother and Sister; Chapter 2 Stradivarius; Chapter 3 A College Breakfast-Party; Chapter 4 Two Lovers; Chapter 5 Self and Life; Chapter 6 Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love; Chapter 7 The Death of Moses; Chapter 8 Arion; Chapter 9 O May I Join the Choir Invisible; Part 101 Further Experiment in Verse; Chapter 10 In a London Drawing Room; Chapter 11 Arms! to Arms!; Chapter 12 Ex Oriente Lux; Chapter 13 In the South; Chapter 14 Will Ladislaw’s Song; Chapter 15 Erinna; Chapter 16 I Grant You Ample Leave; Chapter 17 Mordecai’s Hebrew Verses; Chapter 18 ’Mid My Gold-Brown Curls;
Biography
Antione Gerard van den Broek
